Tech Zulu Event

MAY 7, 2012

This fest will include panels, workshops, cocktails and keynotes for startups, content creators, developers, social media marketers, designers, entrepreneurs, and more. Media/Tech: io/LA (Hollywood). Email HERE with SBF as subject. Email HERE with SBF as subject. CoWorks : TBA. GET INVOLVED! No crazies or flakes.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 26, 2011

With newfound freedom to make independent decisions about finding a company name, where to locate the company, whether to lease an office or start from home, how to engage talent, even whether to provide free coffee to employees, the newly minted entrepreneur can only think of positive thoughts and great outcomes.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 3, 2013

Silicon Beach is expanding from the westside to West Hollywood as entrepreneurs set up shop next to the stars. Whether you’re a networked entrepreneur or just finding your way in the LA tech scene, TZ Tech Crawls give you a fun way to discover new things about the community and each other. That’s right.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Grade A Entrepreneurs , September 5, 2010 Why Krispy Kreme failed in Australia - Start Up Blog , November 3, 2010 Mellow Johnny’s: Retail Stores as Community Hubs - IDDICTIVE.COM , July 14, 2010 Is crowdfunding an option for my business?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2013

Last year I wrote a blog post on entrepreneurs with a chip on their shoulders. A chip on one’s shoulder as in, “F**k the system, it’s broken and I want to fix it” is exactly the energy I look for in entrepreneurs. But even if a VC is nasty a rant email back isn’t the right way to channel your frustration.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

The startup--created by Robert Earl (Founder and CEO of Planet Hollywood), Grant Hosford (formerly of eHarmony), and Connell (formerly of Nokia)--is using the Internet to arrange group dates at local restaurants, to connect people in person and offline. All of that takes the fun out of dating. Andrew Connell: It was fortuitous.

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socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2017

We have them add their name, email address, and input the percent amount. We then subsequently email each individual, if they don't already have Stem, for them to accept their position and confirm their share. At the time, the primary platforms having an impact on Hollywood were Facebook and Twitter.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 25, 2012

AlwaysOn will proudly announce the sixth annual OnHollywood 100 -the top companies that are disrupting the Hollywood establishment and creating viable business models for the digital entertainment marketplace. Successful entrepreneurs, angel investors and venture capitalist looking for the next big thing are regular attendees.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Eighteen months ago, when MAKE IT IN LA's launch from Mayor's Garcetti's office was featured in a White House press release, we announced an audacious goal of reaching 1,000 entrepreneurs with our programming by the end of this year. We also started offering Factory Tour Workshops to entrepreneurs, with nearly 100 applying for the pilots.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

It's difficult to add value to a portfolio company or entrepreneur. We're helping the entrepreneur, leveraging our network, introducing them to people, and helping them think about new products. You just have to have an iron stomach to deal with the time it takes to get things done with Hollywood. That's part one.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2017

Put Serious Effort Into Your Pre-Game I find most entrepreneurs put all of their effort into creating a perfect deck and then asking existing investors which VCs to talk with but they put almost no effort into the real “pre-game” work. The best VCs follow up but then so, too, to the best entrepreneurs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2013

More than just spending, you need to create an “experience” in this digital age which sets you apart from the banner ads, email blasts, and old-school websites out there today. Remember Hollywood secrets. brand experience entrepreneur digital marketing startup secrets business' Then give them a reason to keep coming back.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

And entrepreneurs are working hard to make sure they have as many VC names and famous angels on their cap table for signaling value. Here are the problems that I see increasingly crop up for entrepreneurs in collecting VC logos. VCs turn down entrepreneurs every day. Leaderless rounds. Let’s say you’re raising $1.5m

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socalTECH

MARCH 27, 2009

Email us at info@socaltech.com. Helping entrepreneurs succeed. An on-line community for entrepreneurs. OnHollywood socalTECH is proud to be an affiliate partner of the upcoming OnHollywood event, where cutting-edge technology CEOs from the back streets of Silicon Valley meet the Hollywood digital entertainment and media elite.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Join us as we kick off the holiday season in grand style and bestow the Digital Family Outstanding Achievement Honor on Scott Painter, Founder of CarsDirect and Entrepreneur. digiday:APPS * December 10th * The Renaissance Hollywood Hotel. Tell a friend, and purchase your ticket at www.digitalfamilyinc.com. Win a ticket to digiday:APPS.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2014

Just 20 years old and a recent Harvard University dropout, Olenka provided insight into her transition to Los Angeles, life as an entrepreneur, and how she’s passionate about helping non-English speakers see American movies in their own native language. So being an entrepreneur is a lot like being a student. You have deliverables.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 13, 2010

And they tell me in private emails saying that I made good points or that I’m full of shite. If I had link bait with stupid ideas then entrepreneurs wouldn’t want to work with me. But the reality is that most “conventional wisdom&# is a bit like Hollywood films. Friends and random people alike.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

I first met him there and knew he was a talented entrepreneur that I wanted to work with some day. They have developed a cloud-based platform for merchants to publish to multiple distribution networks, including social, mobile and email. The company’s first offering will be a mobile retail commerce platform. with the clips.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

More than just spending, you need to create an “experience” in this digital age which sets you apart from the banner ads, email blasts, and old-school websites out there today. Remember Hollywood secrets. Yet in the business plans I see, the marketing content and budget are smaller than ever. Keep it real, social, and events-based.

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Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

In the bay area it’s quite common for the entrepreneurs starting a company to be developers or technologists who can build the first versions of their products. Entrepreneurs that start companies in LA are often focused on revenue and business models. That’s typically not the case in Los Angeles.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 24, 2011

When you scan those codes, you're able to see a trailer on your handset, and get an email to download a deleted scene. An example of that is, we might be able to show you the hottest concerts in West Hollywood, or the hottest acts in Santa Monica. When did you decide to take this full time? READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

I’ve been thinking a lot about this over the past two years and bending the ears of any entrepreneur who will humor me to hear what I think the solution needs to look like. Whenever I’m trying out new restaurants I always feel compelled to check Zagat & Yelp and then STILL email friends to ask their POV on my top 3-4 choices.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Tech entrepreneurs and executives from Silicon Valley are moving south and buying up luxury homes in the Los Angeles area. Andrew Frame, a 30-something entrepreneur who founded Internet-telephone company Ooma, bought a contemporary four bedroom in Bel Air for $5.5 WSJs Lauren Schuker Blum shows us around. More Mansion Videos.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2011

More than just spending, you need to create an “experience” in this digital age which sets you apart from the banner ads, email blasts, and old-school websites out there today. Remember Hollywood secrets. Yet in the business plans I see, the marketing content and budget are smaller than ever. Keep it real, social, and events-based.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

When you began your teaching career, did you plan on eventually being an entrepreneur? What guidance can you give to anyone in a financially safe career who longs for the exciting life of an entrepreneur? We always focused on making the story bigger.”. From day one we focused on customers. What is your personal practical joke favorite?

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Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

When the beta was ready in 2011 Botto emailed a link to 100 of his industry contacts, asking them to send it along to five more people if they enjoyed the experience. A huge number of successful shows and movies are being made outside of the traditional studio system, and the DIY culture in Hollywood has become more and more mainstream.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 6, 2017

The hospitality industry developed here in the 1950’s with the Hollywood crowds, like the Rat Pack, coming to the desert to escape the grueling hours of making movies to relax and enjoy some freedom. If you are interested in having your ecosystem featured, shoot an email to monica@engine.is.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 12, 2011

It can’t be the most impressive thing in the world to take a beautiful date out for a night on the town and slap down a crinkled up printout from your email inbox, prominently displaying your thrifty ways. I did the first licensing deal in the world to open up a night club – restaurant, and lounge in Hollywood.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. We had several emails back and forth where he provided basic details on the concept. It may be that all the doomsayers are right. But I don’t think so.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2012

From LA Demo Day to Silicon Beach Fest to Crowdstart LA to hackathons to Startup Weekends, companies and entrepreneurs alike have joined forces to feed the startup ecosystem. The following week, I joined AT&T Hackathon at iO/LA in Hollywood and again pitched the idea. Luckily, I joined another team that eventually won 1 st Place.

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SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

Surprisingly, Hollywood hasnt played a major role in the formation of new companies, which have tended to be in less glamorous though more lucrative areas like lead-generation and service (with obvious exceptions like JibJab and Hulu, a joint venture of Fox and NBC). before which is second-time entrepreneurs. What is happening in L.A.

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